The “Queen of Scream” hangs out on Fifth Avenue in Hillcrest. Anyone who watches the top-rated “So You Think You Can Dance” knows that the scream queen is Mary Murphy. Murphy, a ballroom dance champion, is a judge on the Fox TV talent show, and she's loved and hated for her exuberant, earsplitting responses to contestants' performances.

LOS ANGELES – Awe is what the Spanish clergy and conquerors wished to inspire in the cultures that already populated Latin America. The colonizers couldn't make that motive any clearer than with the sort of larger-than-life Jesus on the cross, commissioned in 1792 for a Brazilian church that was (and still is) its home.